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How to play
- Fill the row with four colours, then press Check.
- Dark filled dot: a peg of the right colour in the right place.
- Light ringed dot: a right colour, but in the wrong place.
- The dots are not in peg order. Ten tries to crack the code.
- Hint fills the row with a code that fits every clue so far.
Controls
Keyboard
- 1–6 (1–8 on Hard) place a colour
- ← → pick a socket, ↑ ↓ change its colour
- Enter or Space check the row, Backspace or Z clear a peg
- H hint, M swap today / practice, L practice level
- P pause
Touch
- Tap a colour to drop it in the next empty socket
- Tap a peg in the row to take it out again
- CLEAR, HINT and CHECK sit under the colours; PRACTICE and the level chip along the top
Controller
- D-pad or left stick to move
- A / Cross for action, B / Circle for secondary
- Start to pause
Tips for a better score
- Open with two colours in pairs, such as two orange and two mustard: whatever comes back tells you about both colours at once.
- A try with no dots at all is good news. Every colour in it is ruled out everywhere.
- Watch the counter under the board. A try that leaves fewer codes fitting was a better question, even when it scores no dots.
- A solve pays 500 on Normal, 300 on Easy and 700 on Hard, less 40 for every try after the first (never under 100). Today's code adds 100, and each hint costs 30.
About Code Breaker
Code Breaker hides a code of four coloured pegs under a shield and gives you ten tries to name it. After each try, small dots on a cream plate tell you how close you came: a dark filled dot for every peg of the right colour in the right place, a light ringed dot for every peg of the right colour in the wrong place. The dots never say which pegs they mean, so each try is a piece of deduction. Every colour peg carries its own symbol, a dot, a triangle, a square and so on, so the board reads just as well if you cannot tell the colours apart. There is one code a day, the same for everybody until your own midnight, and endless practice at three levels: Easy with six colours and no repeats, Normal with six colours where a colour can repeat, and Hard with eight. A counter under the board shows how many codes still fit every clue you have been given.
A free code breaking game that runs in your browser. Category: Puzzle games. Made for RetroWorld with original art and sound.
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